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Delegations to the Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy
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For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary November 14, 2008

Delegations to the Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy

ÿÿWhite House News


Argentina:

Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner -- President Carlos Fernandez - Minister of
Finance Hector Timerman - Sherpa Jorge Taiana - Deputy Minister of Finance

Australia:

Kevin Rudd - Prime Minister Wayne Swan - Treasurer David Tune - Associate
Secretary (Sherpa) Michael Callaghan - Special Envoy to the International
Economy

Brazil:

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva - President Guido Mantega - Minister of Finance
Marcos Galvao - Deputy Minister of Finance Antonio Aguiar Patriota - Sherpa

Canada:

Stephen Joseph Harper - Prime Minister James Flaherty - Minister of Finance
Leonard John Edwards - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (Sherpa) Tiff
Macklem - Deputy Minister of Finance

China:

Hu Jintao - President Wang Qishan - Vice Premier Xie Xuren - Finance
Minister He Yafei - Sherpa

France:

Nicolas Sarkozy - President Christine Lagarde - Finance Minister Francois
Perol - Deputy Chief of Staff Jean-David Levitte - Sherpa

Germany:

Angela Merkel - Chancellor Peer Steinbrueck - Minister of Finance Jens
Weidmann - Sherpa Joerg Asmussen - Deputy Finance Minister

India:

Manmohan Singh - President Palaniappan Chidambaram - Finance Minister
Montek Singh Ahluwalia - Sherpa Ashok Chawla - Deputy Finance Minister

Indonesia:

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono - President Sri Mulyani - Finance Minister Anggito
Abimanyu - Deputy Finance Minister M. Chatib Basri - Sherpa

Italy:

Silvio Berlusconi - President Giulio Tremonti - Minister of Finance
Vittorio Grilli - Deputy Minister of Finance Giampiero Massolo - Sherpa

Japan:

Taro Aso - Prime Minister Shoichi Nakagawa - Minister of Finance Masaharu
Kohno - Sherpa Naoyuki Shinohara - Vice Minister of Finance

Mexico:

Felipe Calderon Hinojosa - President Agustin Carstens Carstens - Minister
of Finance Patricia Espinosa Cantellano - Sherpa Alejandro Warner Wainfeld
- Deputy Finance Minister

Netherlands (representing the European Union):

Jan Peter Balkenende - Prime Minister Jan Cornelis de Jager - Minister of
Finance Jan Theopile Versteeg - Sherpa Martinus Verwey - Deputy Minister of
Finance

Republic of Korea:

Lee Myung-bak - President Kang Man-Soo - Minister of Strategy and Finance
Ahn Ho-young - Sherpa Shin Jeyoon - Deputy Finance Minister

Russia:

Dmitry Medvedev - President Aleksey Kudrin - Minister of Finance Arkady
Dvorkovich - Sherpa Dmitry Pankin - Deputy Minister of Finance

Saudi Arabia:

King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Saud Al-Faisal - Minister of Foreign Affairs
Ibrahim Al-Assaf - Minister of Finance Hamad Al-Sayari - Governor of SAMA

South Africa:

Kgalema Motlanthe - President Trevor Manuel - Minister of Finance Kulu
Mbatha - Sherpa Elias Lesetja Kganyago - Deputy Finance Minister

Spain (representing the European Union):

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero - President Pedro Solbes - Minister of Finance
David Vegara - Sherpa Marek Mora - Deputy Minister of Finance

Turkey:

Recep Tayyip Erdogan - Prime Minister Nazim Ekren - Minister of State and
Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek - Minister of State Selim Kuneralp -
Sherpa

United Kingdom:

Gordon Brown - Prime Minister Alistair Darling - Minister of Finance
Jonathan Cunliffe - Sherpa Stephen Pickford - Deputy Finance Minister

United States:

George W. Bush - President Henry Paulson - Secretary of the Treasury Daniel
Price - Sherpa David McCormick - Under Secretary of the Treasury for
International Affairs

European Union:

Jose Manuel Barroso - President, European Commission Joaquin Almunia -
Commissioner Joao Vale de Almeida - Sherpa Marco Buti - Deputy Finance
Minister

World Bank:

Robert B. Zoellick - President Ngozi N. Okonjo-Iweala - Managing Director

United Nations:

Ban Ki-Moon - Secretary-General Kemal Dervis - Administrator, UN
Development Program

International Monetary Fund:

Dominque Strauss-Kahn - Managing Director John Lipsky - Deputy Managing
Director

Financial Stability Forum:

Mario Draghi - Chairman Svein Andresen - Secretary General

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